Whitehorse Daily Star

October 16, 2014

• Klondike Roots and Blues Festival The Coast High Country Inn will be hosting the Klondike Roots and Blues Festival on Friday and Saturday.
• Fire season comes in under budget Few fires in the territory this past summer have meant major cash savings for the Yukon government.
• Budding Artist Quinn Kokiw won the Grade 3/4 category of the Paleo Art Challenge
• Food For Fines will go ahead, but without flyers The city’s bylaw department will once again use its powers to help out those in need,
• Mid-Afternoon Collision One person was taken to the hospital Tuesday afternoon
• Wellgreen exploring use of LNG for generation Wellgreen Platinum recently signed an agreement with Ferus NGF to supply liquefied natural gas to power its proposed mine northwest of Burwash Landing.
• Man charged with cocaine possession near Watson Lake A 28-year-old B.C. man has been charged with possession of cocaine
• Company to make development decision on new deposit Alexco Resource president Clynton Nauman says the company could make a decision as early as December whether to go ahead with development of a new silver deposit.
• Food security highlighted during launch of poverty week Poverty and Homelessness Action Week this year is focused on food as the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition calls for more action to address food security at both a local and national level as it serves up a few practical proposals as well.
• Nurse who cared for Johnny felt she should have been medevaced sooner Something “very unusual and unexpected” happened to alter Mary Johnny’s condition in the early morning of her sixth day at the Watson Lake hospital,

October 15, 2014

• ‘What if the future is real?’ speaker will ask Thursday What happens when the nation’s growth-based economy stops growing?
• New fund celebrates multiculturalism in Yukon Since the New Canadians Event Fund was announced last March, three organizations have accessed it to host cultural events.
• Helping A Vital Cause Klondike Mud Boggers volunteer Leona Iskra, left, presents a $2,300 cheque to Geraldine Van Bibber for the Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund.
• Fire truck will benefit West Dawson, Sunnydale Fire practice night was a little unusual last Wednesday,
• Motorist drives on after hitting teenaged student A teenaged girl was struck by a pickup truck in a hit-and-run on her way to school Tuesday morning.
• Fund-Raiser Goes This Evening Karen Wienburg is seen this morning with some of the items on sale this evening at the Old Fire Hall for the Fashion Pay It Forward fund-raiser for Little Footprints Big steps.
• People to become the books Saturday at the public library October has been designated as Canadian Library Month by the Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des bibliothèques.
• Hospice Yukon plans film premiere Hospice Yukon will host the first Canadian screening of an award-winning documentary about the green burial, called A Will for the Woods.
• Compost operations move into city’s hands The city will take on full responsibility for its compost program.
• Raven knocked out power for hundreds Approximately 1,700 residents in the city’s north end and beyond lost power for up to an hour Tuesday evening because of a raven.
• Kayaker drowned, coroner concludes A 72-year-old B.C. man who was found in Lake Laberge last summer died of accidental drowning,
• Inquest begins into Watson Lake woman’s death The inquest into the death of Mary Johnny began Tuesday in a Whitehorse courtroom with testimony from her mother, son, and several nurses who cared for her in Watson Lake.
• Another page turned toward university status Yukon College has announced the next step in its march toward university status, unveiling plans Tuesday for its first “made-in-Yukon” degree program.

October 14, 2014

• Lots now for sale over the counter The city has moved to an over-the-counter sale for a piece of land on Ogilvie Street after there were no bids submitted by the Sept. 29 deadline.
• Prenatal, maternity care services are on the move There will be a change in the location of services provided to Yukon women needing prenatal and maternity care,
• An Eye From Up High An eagle hunts
• Women’s centre and college mark global Day of the Girl Oct. 11 marked International Day of the Girl,
• N.W.T. pipeline is doable: DM A pipeline up the Mackenzie River valley to move bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to the Beaufort Sea is not a pipe dream
• Anne Frank open house set for tomorrow An acclaimed international travelling exhibit, Anne Frank – A History for Today, is being displayed at a number of Yukon schools.
• Man’s mental fitness undetermined: Crown Whether Michael Nehass is mentally fit to face criminal charges is a question which is still outstanding, says Crown prosecutor Leo Lane.
• Many Rivers’ cutbacks spur protest petition The cancellation of a number of parenting programs offered through Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services has spurred an online petition.
• Bolstering The Food Bank Fawn Fritzen performs at Saturday’s CHON-FM radio pledge show
• Airport parking rules, fees will undergo changes, official declares Airport parking rules, fees will undergo changes, official declares
• EI changes have major implications Whitehorse residents will be hit harder and in higher numbers than anywhere else across the North by changes to Employment Insurance, according to Access to Information documents.
• Flight attendants scheduled to vote on first collective agreement Air North and its flight attendants have reached a tentative contract agreement, it was announced Friday afternoon.